Another bid to open a petrol station in an upmarket Wolverhampton village
Developers have resubmitted plans to open a petrol station in an upmarket Wolverhampton village
Another bid has been made to build a new petrol station in Tettenhall after similar plans were rejected by a council and planning inspectors.
The move to build the petrol station, car wash and shop on the site of the old Newbridge Service Station off Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton, was rejected by the City of Wolverhampton Council in 2023 over fears it would be too noisy for neighbours.
The applicant Nottingham-based Bushbury Ltd then appealed to the government’s planning inspector, which has the power to overrule the council, in a bid to get the decision overturned but was rejected again.
Khalid Mohammad from Bushbury Ltd has now applied again to City of Wolverhampton Council to build the petrol station – which would also include a shop and car wash.
The application was criticised by Wolverhampton planners for being “poorly designed” with the council saying it needed more landscaping instead of hardstanding when rejecting the plans in October 2023.
The council’s planners also said the “utilitarian” forecourt would be to the “detriment of the surrounding area.”
The shop would have had 6am to 11pm opening hours with the car wash operating until 9pm every day.
The land, next to the Newbridge pub, was used for a petrol station until 2005 when it was demolished but has remained empty since.
An application to build another petrol station was refused in 2006 and 2008 and was left empty and overgrown until 2015 when the Co-op revealed plans to open a new supermarket.
The plans were backed by the council but the work was never carried out and the land was sold again.
The planning inspector said that noise assessments included with the application predicted a “small increase” in noise – with Tettenhall Road being a busy route in and out of Wolverhampton – but had not measured noise levels from a nearby home.
The house, which sits on the border of the proposed petrol station site, would have had to face noise from the petrol station’s jet wash, car wash, tank vents and tyre air pumps according to the inspector.
